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| John Gorka | |
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| John Gorka at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival 2004 John Gorka at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival 2004 |
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| Background information | |
| Born | 1958 |
| Origin | Edison, New Jersey, US |
| Genres | Folk |
| Occupations | Songwriter, musician |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1980's–present |
| Labels | Windham Hill, High Street, Red House |
| Website | www.johngorka.com |
John Gorka (born 1958)[1] is a contemporary American folk musician. In 1991, Rolling Stone magazine called him "the preeminent male singer-songwriter of what has been dubbed the New Folk Movement."[2]
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Biography [link]
Gorka received his first guitar as a Christmas gift, though Gorka alleges that his older brother stole it from him shortly thereafter. He eventually learned, instead, to play the banjo, and began performing in a folk music group at his church.
Gorka attended Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and joined the Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band which would also include guitarist Richard Shindell. He later began performing solo at the Godfrey Daniels coffee house as the opening act for various musicians who toured there. These included Nanci Griffith, Bill Morrissey, Claudia Schmidt and Jack Hardy.
In 1984, Gorka took first place at the Kerrville Folk Festival. Since then he has toured with artists such as Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, Michael Manring, Christine Lavin, Dave Van Ronk, Cliff Eberhardt, David Massengill, Frank Christian and Lucy Kaplansky.
As of 2005, he was residing in the St. Croix Valley area near Saint Paul, Minnesota.
In 2008, Gorka decided to return to Europe for the first time in fourteen years. In October, he played four times in the Netherlands, he played live on VPRO radio and he did a session for the John Gorka video site.
In 2009, Gorka toured in the USA but also in Ireland and the Netherlands. In October, Red House Records released the CD "So Dark You See." Gorka's latest installment is considered a more intimate, vocal and guitar-centered record than the last two.
Discography [link]
Studio albums [link]
- I Know (Red House, 1987)
- Land of the Bottom Line (Windham Hill/High Street, 1990)
- Jack's Crows (Windham Hill/High Street, 1991)
- Temporary Road (Windham Hill/High Street, 1992)
- Out of the Valley (Windham Hill/High Street, 1994)
- Between Five and Seven (Windham Hill/High Street, 1996)
- After Yesterday (Red House, 1998)
- The Company You Keep (Red House, 2001)
- Old Futures Gone (Red House, 2003)
- Writing in the Margins (Red House, 2006)
- So Dark You See (Red House, 2009)
Collaboration [link]
- Red Horse (Red House, 2010) with Lucy Kaplansky and Eliza Gilkyson
EPs [link]
- Motor Folkin' (Windham Hill/High Street, 1994)
DVD [link]
- The Gypsy Life (AIX Records, 2007)
"Best of" albums [link]
- Pure John Gorka (Windham Hill, 2006)
On various artists compilations [link]
- See various issues of Fast Folk Musical Magazine for early recordings.
- "I Saw a Stranger with Your Hair" on Legacy: A Collection of New Folk Music (Windham Hill, 1989)
- "Christmas Bells", on A Winter's Solstice, Vol. III (Windham Hill, 1990)
- "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" on A Tribute to Bob Dylan, Vol. 2 (SIS, 1994)
- "The Gypsy Life" on The Live from Mountain Stage, Vol. 8 (Blue Plate, 1995)
- "Bracero" on What's That I Hear?: The Songs of Phil Ochs (Sliced Bread, 1998)
- "Thirsty Boots" (Eric Andersen) on Bleecker Street: Greenwich Village in the 1960s (Astor Place Records, 1999)
- "Girl from the North Country" on A Nod to Bob: An Artists' Tribute to Bob Dylan on His 60th Birthday (Red House, 2001)
- "Do La Lay", "Things We've Handed Down" and others on Down at the Sea Hotel (La Montagne Secrète, 2007)
References [link]
- ^ Henkle, Doug, "FolkLib Index"
- ^ Wing, Eliza, Rolling Stone, August 8, 1991, p. 17
External links [link]
- Official Website
- AIX Records Website
- "John Gorka videosite" a kind of John Gorka multi media site.
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Silvertown
Coordinates: 51°30′N 0°02′E / 51.50°N 0.03°E
Silvertown is an industrialised district on the north bank of the Thames in the London Borough of Newham that is currently undergoing a major £3.5billion redevelopment. It was named after Samuel Winkworth Silver's former rubber factory which opened in 1852, and is now dominated by the Tate & Lyle sugar refinery and the John Knight ABP animal rendering plant.
History
In 1852 S.W.Silver and Co moved to the area from Greenwich and established a rubber works, originally to make waterproof clothing. This subsequently developed into the works of the India Rubber, Gutta Percha and Telegraph Cable Company, which constructed and laid many submarine cables. By the 1860s a number of manure and chemical works and petroleum storage depots had been set up.
Sugar refiners in the area were joined by Henry Tate in 1877 and Abram Lyle in 1881, whose companies merged in 1921 to form Tate & Lyle. Prior to the merger, which occurred after they had died, the two men were bitter business rivals, although they had never met in person. Tate & Lyle still has two large refineries in the area.
Silvertown (UK Parliament constituency)
Silvertown was a borough constituency returning a single Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom through the first-past-the-post voting system. The constituency was one of four divisions of the Parliamentary Borough of West Ham, which had at the time the same boundaries as the County Borough of West Ham. Although administratively separate since 1889, the area was formally part of the county of Essex; since 1965 it has been part of the London Borough of Newham in Greater London.
The creation of the constituency was recommended by the Boundary Commission in a report issued in 1917, and formally created by the Representation of the People Act 1918. It came into existence at the 1918 general election. As the borough of West Ham had only 120,586 electors on 15 October 1946, the relevant date for the subsequent Boundary Commission review, the borough was only entitled to two Members of Parliament; North and South divisions were recommended. As a consequence Silvertown was abolished as a separate constituency by the Representation of the People Act 1948 and went out of existence at the 1950 general election.
Radio Stations - Silvertown
Podcasts:
John Gorka
ALBUMS
- Bright Side of Down released: 2014
- So Dark You See released: 2009
- Writing in the Margins released: 2006
- Old Futures Gone released: 2003
- The Company You Keep released: 2001
- After Yesterday released: 1998
- Between Five and Seven released: 1996
- Out of the Valley released: 1994
- Temporary Road released: 1992
- Jack's Crows released: 1991
- Land of the Bottom Line released: 1990
- I Know released: 1987
Land of the Bottom Line
Released 1990- Land of the Bottom Line
- Armed With a Broken Heart
- Raven in the Storm
- The One That Got Away
- Full of Life
- Stranger in My Driver's Seat
- The Sentinel
- Dream Street
- Mean Streak
- Italian Girls
- Jailbirds in the Bighouse
- Promnight in Pigtown
- I Saw a Stranger With Your Hair
- Love Is Our Cross to Bear
- That's How Legends Are Made
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The Ballad Of Jamie Bee
by: John GorkaJamie ran aground out in Ohio
Wife left for the great unknown
He says he's gonna take to the high road
She will find a place alone
He says he just could not make her happy
That he never tried so hard before
He'd wake up first and make the coffee
Now the mornings were like war
There's a barroom for every way the wind blows
And a harness for every mother's son
You pull your own weight or else it pulls you
It gets harder the longer that you run
Jamie's from the last great breed of roadmen
Woody, Jack, and Kerouac and such
But here was a woman he would die for
Beauty no road could ever touch
The town was nearly famous for the glassworks
The factory where they made hoods for the klan
There's a football hall of famer in the phonebook
There's only trouble for an empty man
There's a barroom for every way the wind blows
And temptation in every substance known
You pull your own weight or else it pulls you
It gets harder the older that you've grown
At home in the harley-ridden poolhalls
I guess it's best they never had those kids
Closer to the outlaws then the in-laws
They said Jamie's heart don't break but I know it did
They said Jamie's heart don't break but I know it did
He will find some refuge in his music
And a long shot that they will reconcile
The meantime is a mean time and he knows it
Til the day he's back upon the pile
Now there's headlights heading from Ohio
And there's teardrops saltier than rain
There's taillights to tell a tale still tender
And a cold wind blowing through the night